Heretics, Adversaries, and Legitimacy: Decoding Al-Mirsaad, The Afghan Taliban’s Strategic Communications Apparatus
May 2026
New ICCT Analysis: Engineering the Virtual Caliphate — Islamic State’s Exploitation of Gen-Z Culture
By Saif Tahir & Amira Jadoon | Published in ICCT, 28 April 2026
Durand Dispatch: Strategic Messaging
April 2026 Volume 1, Issue 3 Analyzing Invade: Islamic State’s New Pakistan-Focused Propaganda Magazine
Islamic State, Afghanistan, Pakistan
From Chitral to Karachi: The Tehrik-i-Taliban’s Year-Long Geographic Expansion in 2025
For much of its existence, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been understood as a threat emanating from Pakistan’s Pashtun-dominated northwest — a regional insurgency with a bounded geographic logic. The events of 2025 challenge that framing. Across the past twelve months, the TTP has moved with apparent intention to reconstitute itself as a nationwide militant […]
Realignment, Rivalry and the Limits of Engagement
United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan Relations
Encircled and Entangled: What the Iran War Means for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Implications of the Iran War
Why Insurgents Attack Americans: What the Data Tells Us and What to do About it
Review Ruling by Decree: Akhundzada’s Architecture of Control on the Eve of Open War on the Durand Line
Afghanistan Internal Politics Operation Herof 2.0: Women on the Front Lines of the Baloch Insurgency
Women in Combat